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Ali R. Awan

Imperial College LondonORCID 0000-0002-0011-1865Unclaimed ORCID profile · follow to get notified of new preprints

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Assay:bulk RNA-seq· 2 Approach:experimental assay· 2 Research Focus:gene regulatory network inference· 2 Organism:E. coli· 1 Organism:fungi (other)· 1 Research Focus:genome assembly· 1 Assay:long-read sequencing· 1 Assay:metabolomics· 1

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Evolutionary BiologybioRxivPreprintJan 16, 2026

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Convergent evolution of psilocybin biosynthesis by psychedelic mushrooms

Ali R. Awan, Jaclyn M. Winter, Dann Turner…·Bryn T. M. Dentinger

Comparative mushroom genomics and fly-rearing experiments reveal an alternative psilocybin biosynthetic gene cluster in Inocybe corydalina, horizontal transfer of the canonical cluster, and incomplete defense against dipteran larvae.

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fungi (other)multiple species

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Synthetic BiologyNature MethodsPeer-reviewedMar 26, 2018

Burden-driven feedback control of gene expression

Francesca Ceroni, Alice Boo, Simone Furini…·Tom Ellis

The paper identifies heat-shock promoters that activate rapidly in response to synthetic gene expression in E. coli and uses them to build a CRISPR/dCas9-based feedback system that improves protein yield by adjusting synthetic construct expression based on cellular burden.

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E. colibulk RNA-seq

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